More dolphins have beached themselves on the shores of Cape Cod in the past three weeks than typically beach in an entire year, and marine biologists have no idea why. This is the "single largest stranding" of dolphins in the Northeast since at least 1999, according to the International Fund for Animal Welfare, and rescuers anticipate more to come. Interestingly, this is happening just as Congress is poised to cut funding for stranding response teams nationwide. "If scientists do not have the funds to determine the cause of a mass mortality event, there could be a threat to public health without anyone knowing," the IFAW warned Congress last week. Here's an MSNBC news video segment from the dolphin-clogged beaches of Cape Cod: more ›

Yesterday's freak snow storm threw air travel along the East Coast for a loop. Flights were stopped for hours at JFK, Laguardia and Newark. And for one Newark-bound Jet Blue flight from Miami, that meant its 200 passengers were stuck on the tarmac at Bradley International in Hartford, Connecticut for eight hours. A Miami Sun-Sentinel sports writer, on his way to today's Giants game versus the Dolphins, Tweeted, "Lady on board just broke down. Like that guy who cried in his cell at the beginning of Shawshank. Can someone sneak me in Rita Hayworth?" more ›

What do you do when you get stuck overnight in an airport? Sing "Hey Jude"? These two guys decided to document their adventures, where they were (for the most part) unsupervised. So unsupervised, in fact, that they had no problems messing with the intercom system and pouring themselves some beer from one of the bars. more ›

The storm has really brought out everyone's creative side. Yesterday we saw an Oscar-worthy short documenting the blizzard, and its more lo-brow counterpart—now someone has sent along the below video, where somehow inspiration was found in Newark Airport. Can you really go wrong with a 5D Mark II and a soundtrack by The National, though? more ›

Blizzageddon spares no one. Not even football stars. Both the Jets and the Giants are currently stranded (in Chicago and Wisconsin, respectively) after yesterday's games, and most of them seem pretty unhappy about it. Jets center Nick Mangold recently wrote on Twitter, "Still stuck in chicago. I'd so rather be making a snow fort in New Jerrrrrssseeeeyyyy." Wouldn't we all! more ›

A massive snowstorm shut down airports across Europe this past week and though many of them are back up and running London's Heathrow isn't quite on the horse yet. Officials don't expect it to be fully operational until tomorrow. Which means thousands of Brits are stranded in New York. So what are they doing while they wait? Shopping, from what the Post gathers (good for the economy!). But honestly, we would have expected more folks on Craigslist looking for some company while they waited... Our quick search turned up only one lonely traveller looking for some company (or rather, only one who put the storm in their in ad). more ›

The Carnival Cruise ship initially stranded off the coast of Mexico after an engine room fire knocked out all of its power on Monday has been receiving supplies via Navy helicopters and is being tugged back to California. The ship, which had been adrift for two days—without air conditioning, hot water or cell phone service— before the first of many tugboats arrived, has among its 4,500 people (about 3,330 passengers and 1,200 crew members) Westchester Legislator Bernice Spreckman, her husband Harry and a group of about 50 other senior citizens from Yonkers. more ›

Retired school principal Elizabeth Mulvihill moved from Long Island to South Williamsburg a couple years ago because she's old and doesn't want to drive anymore. So she dropped $1,040,000 on a two-bedroom apartment in Schaefer Landing, a development on the East River that opened in 2006. At first life was grand, with the New York Water Taxi whisking her away to Manhattan for doctor appointments in 15 minutes. But then the boats stopped running in the winter because the line wasn't profitable. And with the L train a mile away, Mulvihill says she's "stranded" and "depressed." Other tenants at Schaefer Landing are deciding against renewing their leases because of the lack of transportation, and with Depression 2.0 well underway, many are wondering what ever will become of all these optimistic new condos. New York Water Taxi wants a subsidy from the city to keep the South Williamsburg line afloat, and Mulvihill just wants an easy way to get to the doctor. She tells the Times, “I thought this was a safe investment, given the stock market.” more ›

Riders were stranded on the platform and in subway cars when a Brooklyn-bound L train stalled under the East River just after 8PM. Reader tokyohanna, who took this photograph of people waiting, wrote at the time, "There is a train stalled between first and Bedford. They stopped trains in both directions. A sea of people is on the platform and we can barely walk." amNew York reports that the train had a mechanical failure close... more ›